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Transfer of employment contracts: Heineken loses eight-year legal battle

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Netherlands
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  • May 15 2013

An eight-year legal battle between a trade union and Heineken has finally been resolved by the Supreme Court

Social agreement: dismissal rules changed again?

  • Kennedy Van der Laan
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  • Netherlands
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  • May 13 2013

After the formation of the Coalition Agreement, we published the newsletter article 'Dismissal Law Turned Topsy-Turvy; What Should You Know?'

Silence is golden: ex-employees do not have to snitch on former employers

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • May 9 2013

The Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal has resolved a long-running dispute on the scope of a company's right to remain silent

Legal position of expats in the event of dismissal

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Netherlands
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  • October 13 2009

Many Dutch companies post employees abroad

Termination of employment contracts during pregnancy

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Netherlands
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  • December 15 2009

It is often unclear to employers whether they are permitted to terminate the employment contract of a pregnant employee

Severance pay formula applied by courts to be changed

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Netherlands
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  • December 5 2008

On 30 October 2008 the Association of Dutch Sub-District Court Judges (Kring van Kantonrechters) decided to amend the formula developed and used by such judges for the calculation of severance pay when an employment contract is rescinded

Supreme Court confirms rights of employees in transfer of undertaking

  • Kennedy Van der Laan
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  • Netherlands
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  • April 24 2013

The die is cast. On 5 April 2013, the Dutch Supreme Court rendered the long-awaited judgment in the case of Albron Nederland FNV Bondgenoten et al

Dismissal law turned upside down; what should you know?

  • Kennedy Van der Laan
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  • Netherlands
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  • December 19 2012

In their coalition agreement, the parties in government VVD and PvdA have indicated ‘the wish to reform dismissal law and to modernize unemployment benefits’

Does an employment contract for an indefinite period terminate by operation of law when the employee reaches the age of 65?

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Netherlands
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  • October 13 2009

In practice, an employment contract for an indefinite period often provides that the contract will terminate automatically, without notice being required, on the last day of the month in which the employee turns 65

New legislation in the Netherlands: assignment of employees; register to prevent fines!

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Netherlands
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  • July 12 2012

If you assign employees or hire assigned employees in the Netherlands, please consider the new statutory obligation for an assigning company to register its activities accordingly (even if the assignment activities do not qualify as one of the company's core activities